To B. D. Walsh 9 July [1865]
Down Bromley | Kent
July 9
My dear Sir
I must send you a line to thank you for your interesting letter of May 29th.1
I have been ill during the last two months & have done no scientific work.
Many thanks for the case of Panagæus; this genus is almost sacred to me from old Cambridge recollections.2
Thanks also for the extract from Gen. Paez’ work.3 With respect to Daphnia it is a common genus of Entomostracan crustaceans4 & the facts to which you allude are well known, excepting the case, if true, of the males producing one form of eggs, which must I think have been discovered since I attended to the Genus.5
I sent you a few weeks ago a paper by me on climbing plants;6 but I doubt whether you will find it worth reading.
I am very much pleased that you like Bates’ paper.7 Pray read his Travels.8
Believe me | my dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Autobiography: The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited with appendix and notes by Nora Barlow. London: Collins. 1958.
Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1860–2): 495–566.
Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Leftwich, A. W. 1973. A dictionary of zoology. 3d edition. London: Constable.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Paez, Ramon. 1863. Wild scenes in South America, or life in the llanos of Venezuela. 2d edition. New York: Charles Scribner.
Summary
Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4867
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Benjamin Dann Walsh
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JY 10 65
- Source of text
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4)
- Physical description
- LS 4pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4867,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4867.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13